Virtual machines face significant performance challenges beyond those confronted by
traditional static optimizers. First, portable program representations and dynamic language …

The development of cloud computing delivery models inspires the emergence of cloud-
native computing. Cloud-native computing, as the most influential development principle for …

Java performance is far from being trivial to benchmark because it is affected by various
factors such as the Java application, its input, the virtual machine, the garbage collector, the …

Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) provides developers a conceptual abstraction for
mapping the application code to the underlying databases. ORM is widely used in industry …

To reach the next level of performance and energy efficiency, optimizations are increasingly
applied in a dynamic and adaptive manner. Current adaptive systems are typically reactive …

This paper describes a decentralized consistency protocol for survivable storage that
exploits local data versioning within each storage-node. Such versioning enables the …

Virtual machines (VMs) enable the distribution of programs in an architecture-neutral format,
which can easily be interpreted or compiled. A long-running question in the design of VMs is …

Modern compilers implement a large number of optimizations which all interact in complex
ways, and which all have a different impact on code quality, compilation time, code size …

Many popular cloud applications are large-scale distributed systems with each request
involving tens to thousands of RPCs and large code bases. Because of their scale …

Experimental evaluation is key to systems research. Because modern systems are complex
and non-deterministic, good experimental methodology demands that researchers account …